“Offal” is a self-portrait, which first appeared as a fetishized punching bag composed of two leather jackets (of his boyhood friends) and stuffed with printed media that influenced the artist’s teenage years (bits of KS Cracovia game day tickets, catalogues and other memorabilia mixed with torn pages of copied paintings by the likes of Roger van der Weyden, the Master of the Life of the Virgin, Italian Futurists and others). Exhibited a second time, the functional sculpture was sliced open; gutted as part of a performance. Recollecting the shreds of printed matter, in the third and final transformation, Dudek packed them into a hard, twisted torso, a paper-mache body of archeological primitivism where glimmers of colored ink shine through like precious minerals. This work was part of his 2017 exhibition “Steps & Marches,” which took place simultaneously in Brussels and London.